A case of Japanese spotted fever complicated with central nervous system involvement and multiple organ failure

Internal Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 783-786

  Nakata, Ruka ^a   Motomura, Masakatsu ^a   Tokuda, Masahiro ^a   Nakajima, Hideki ^a   Masuda, Tomoko ^a   Fukuda, Taku ^a   Tsujino, Akira ^a   Yoshimura, Toshiro ^a   Kawakami, Atsushi ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aseptic meningitis and encephalitis; DIC; Japanese spotted fever; Rickettsia japonica

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; D DIMER; FERRITIN; FRUCTOSE BISPHOSPHATE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; MEROPENEM; MINOCYCLINE; PHENYTOIN; RISPERIDONE; VALPROIC ACID; VANCOMYCIN; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR CLEAVING PROTEINASE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; CASE REPORT; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; ERYTHEMA; FEVER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOMANIA; HYPOTENSION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; INFLAMMATION; JAPANESE SPOTTED FEVER; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; LEUKOCYTOCLASTIC VASCULITIS; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; MALE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MENTAL DISEASE; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PANNICULITIS; PETECHIA; PLEOCYTOSIS; PROTEIN CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; PURPURA; RICKETTSIA JAPONICA; RICKETTSIACEAE INFECTION; SEIZURE; SEPTIC SHOCK; SHIVERING; SKIN BIOPSY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; RICKETTSIA INFECTIONS; SEROLOGIC TESTS;

EID: 84859319258     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.51.6214     Document Type: Article

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